I went over my 11 last night by 8 minutes.

Normally your QC will give you a warning first, lights up and says your out of hours of service driving time. That is most likely what happened. Look at your log from that time period and see if it logged you as driving. If it didn't you will be fine.

Were you at the pilot in Tumwater, WA? I got there at 1200 ish and there were only 10 spots. Piece of advice for ya, download the Trucker Path Pro app and make sure you are finding somewhere to park when you get to your last hour of your clock.

The other thing is all major truck stops have reserve spaces that you can call ahead of time to reserve so you will have a spot to park. I use them whenever I am going to be getting into a TS after 2100 and my company reimburses me for them.

I come to Washington all the time and any TS on I5 will be full very early so plan ahead my friend. Don't make a habit of going over your hours because that will be a problem for you eventually. If your dispatcher is pressuring you to drive right to the end of your hours just say no. You would be surprised how often you can do that and not get any repercussions.

Oh and finding a parking spot does not constitute an "emergency." An emergency is any act that threatens your life or the truck.

 

Private property or not, you can not drink and drive.

 

Driving, by definition is going down the highway. When you are at the shipper or receiver, or in your yard or at truckstops vehicle movement is considered "on duty, not driving".

 

Private property yes you can. If you had a cattle ranch in Texas with 3 counties as your private domain and no Law Enforcement anywhere except what you provide for yourself under Castle Doctrine... This is reaching a little bit towards absurd. But if it's your land and no Law around except yourself shrugs. Bottoms up.

Not that wise anyway but technically there isnt any thing stopping you from doing so.

 

Sure you can. I can head out to the farm and be slamming cold ones all day driving around the back 40 and there ain't a darn thing the law can do about it. Police chief from the next town over used to mow my lawn when his maw lived next door...and I'd offer him a brew while he was riding on his mower.

The law applies on public roads. If somebody wants to rent out Talladega or Daytona and pay you to run around the track 24/7 until you just can't hold your eyes open anymore in your truck, that's your right & theirs to do so and there is nothing the DOT can do about it. If you're taking a shot of liquid courage every few laps, again, nothing illegal about it. Private property. As long as you aren't over your 70 and you've had your 10 hour break...and sobered up again...before attempting to drive on public roads again, there isn't a darn thing the DOT can do about it.

The reason you're required to log your time driving on private property is to ensure compliance with the regulations once you leave private property and are once again on public roads. Same with requiring you to log a job flipping burgers as "on duty not driving". It isn't to limit the hours you can work at the burger shack, but rather to ensure compliance with the 70 hour rule and that you got your 10 hour break once you're back in the truck driving on public roads.

 

Actually, driving is described in the regs as any time the truck is running and you're at the controls. Private property or not doesn't matter, you're supposed to be on line 3. It is that way to ensure you aren't driving around on private property for 4 hours before leaving for a 10 hour trip. Driving time is supposed to be logged as such, no matter where it occurs...but "violations" only happen if you drive on public roads.

 

RESERVED PARKING SPOTS NOW?! At the truckstop of your choice anywhere in the USA?

Do riddle me this. The old classic I-81 virginia problem that starts roughly Indian Gap (I-81/I-78 ject) all the way down to say... Knoxville TN you aint gonna find a legal parking spot on demand some nights. There are tens to hundreds of thousands of vehicles flooding several state interstates and the idea you can reserve a specific parking spot is ludicrous.

Call me slow. Call me luddite, Call me what you will. In my day you got yourself a spot long enough to be able to sleep without being discovered and hassled by troopers or... you find a nice quiet shopping center to the rear where everything is closed and dark for the night. Some of the best rest can be found in these places.

 

OP, you gotta park for 5 minutes in between circling the lot.

 

Agree, word by word.

It surprises me that it takes 29 answers to get the right one.
The distance of a "free ride" before it changes to On Duty Driving varies. It depends on the companies settings and can allow up to two miles and can even log back to the point where you started from.

But I'm 100% sure, on the OP's log you won't find anything of driving past his time. It was just a warning and, yes, it sounds darn ugly.

 

If it was your 14 or 8, just edit the time off your pre-trip.

But really not a big deal, your company should allow for occasional minor violations.

It is a nonissue unless you get pulled over driving in violation.